System Center Universe DACH/Europe (SCU DACH) announced

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Thomas Maurer

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Have you ever heard of the famous System Center Universe (SCU) hosted by Catapult Systems? If not then it’s about time to visit http://www.systemcenteruniverse.com and check out the excellent content.

After talking to Catapult Systems we decided to bring this great event to Europe. We are now in the planning phase, talking to partners, speakers, sponsors etc. that are interested to partner with us and help making this event coming true. Visit the event web site where we will start publishing more information shortly!

http://www.systemcenteruniverse.ch

Windows Azure Recovery Services: Backup & Hyper-V Recovery Manager (Preview)

Posted on April 8, 2013 by Thomas Maurer

Microsoft just released Windows Azure Recovery Services (Preview) for the features like Backup and Hyper-V Recovery Manager.

Windows Azure Backup (Preview) – This is your offsite backup to cloud solutions, which integrates in Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2012 Essentials, or System Center 2012 Data Protection Manager. These tools provide similar experiences configuring, monitoring, and recovering backups whether to local disk or Windows Azure storage. After data is backed up to the cloud, authorized users can easily recover backups to any server.

Windows Azure Hyper-V Recovery Manager (Preview) – This allows you to easily failover private clouds to a secondary datacenter- This feature integrates in System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager and uses the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica technology to replicate your private cloud. It helps you to orchestrate datacenter failovers or recovery of virtual machines. The solution offers also the same features as Hyper-V replica but in a much bigger scale.

You can get more information here: Windows Azure Recovery Services

Microsoft Live from CeBIT 2013 with me as an Expert for Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center

Posted on March 8, 2013 by Thomas Maurer

Today and tomorrow I will be available in the Microsoft Live Chat directly from CeBIT 2013 in Hannover to answer your questions around Windows Server Hyper-V and System Center. So if you have any question just use the Microsoft Live Stream and ask your questions.

More: Microsoft Live from CeBIT 2013

System Center 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 1 Available

Posted on January 10, 2013 by Thomas Maurer

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After Microsoft released System Center 2012 SP1 the first update rollup is available which fixes some issues for some of the System Center components. With the System Center 2012 SP1 Update Rollup 1 (KB2785682) fixes also some issues with System Center 2012 – Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) and App Controller (SCAC).

You can get more information about what is fixed on the Description of Update Rollup 1 for System Center 2012 Service Pack 1 page.

Thanks to Michel Lüscher (Consultant at Microsoft Switzerland) for the link.

Microsoft Community Open Day in Munich

Posted on November 8, 2012 by Thomas Maurer

In a few hours me and System Center Cloud and Datacenter Management MVP Marcel Zehner from itnetx will travel to the Microsoft Community Open Day in Munich Germany. Also onboard Michel Lüscher Consultant from Microsoft Switzerland. This is my first official Microsoft MVP event and I am sure it will be great to meet other DACH MVPs like Carsten Rachfahl and Stefan Koell, Microsoft employees and other geeks.

Geekmania 2012 Recap

Posted on October 29, 2012 by Thomas Maurer

Last Friday I had two session at Geekmania 2012, a the conference for real geeks. Together with other architects and engineers of itnetx we were presenting lot of cool stuff around Microsoft Virtualization and Systems Management at Level 400.

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In my two sessions me and Philipp Witschi from itnetx talked about the new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V features like Hyper-V Replica and in the second session I focused on Hyper-V over SMB, showing new features and possibilities of SMB 3.0.

A great thing to see was the full cinema hall (around ~120 people) during the Hyper-V and Windows Server 2012 Storage session, which shows the great interested in Hyper-V.

I hope people could learn something new and enjoyed my sessions and Geekmania 2012. It was great to talk to a lot of people about the new Hypervisor.

If you enjoyed my sessions I hope you will attend my session about System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 on the Swiss TechDays during 19.11. and 20.11. in Basel.

Interview: Hyper-V-Server.de Podcast

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Thomas Maurer

Carsten Rachfahl (MVP Virtual Machine) from hyper-v-server.de just released one of his Hyper-V and Microsoft Private Cloud podcasts. In this podcast Carsten collects a lot of information about Hyper-V like blog posts, whitepapers, videos and events. In this blog post he also included two interviews, one with Bernhard Frank (Microsoft Private Cloud Evangelist) and also one with me. In 10 to 15 minutes Carsten and I talked about my new Microsoft MVP award, new features in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and my visit in Redmond during the Microsoft System Center TAP Airlift event.

The podcast can be found here: Microsoft Virtualisierungs Podcast Folge 24: Interview mit einem Private Cloud Evangelisten und einem MVP Virtual Machine (German)

Some months ago I already had the chance to talk to Carsten during a Video interview (German).

In the podcast Carsten also added some events where I will talk about Microsoft Private Cloud, Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

October 26 – Geekmania (Sessions about Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V and Storage with Philipp Witschi from itnetx gmbh)
November 20 – IT-Pro TechDays Schweiz (Session about System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 SP1 with Michel Lüscher from Microsoft)